Galatians 3:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Are you so foolish and so senseless and so silly? Having begun [your new life spiritually] with the [Holy] Spirit, are you now reaching perfection [by dependence] on the flesh?

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?

Common English Bible

³ Are you so irrational? After you started with the Spirit, are you now finishing up with your own human effort?

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Are you so foolish that, though you began with the Spirit, you would now end with the flesh?

Galatians 3:3 Cross References

Hebrews 9:2

For a tent was prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence; it is called the Holy Place.

Ezekiel 18:24

But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and does the same abominable things that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds which he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, he shall die.

Galatians 3:2

Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

Galatians 3:4

Did you experience so many things in vain?—if it really is in vain.